Providing support, guidance, and an aid to study, this handy guide helps you adapt to life as a student in the UK. You will find tips and information on life skills, cultural differences and university life, as well as key research and study skills.

Reflecting the enormous changes that have taken place in our knowledge and understanding of developmental disorders, this groundbreaking international volume brings this vast and complex field together for the first time.

A state of the art guide to the issues and debates surrounding feminist theory, mapping both the present and the future of this broad, interdisciplinary field.

Introducing students to the real world of evaluation and focusing on issues that arise in professional practice, this book shows readers how to systematically identify stakeholders' needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet those needs.

This hands-on guide shows psychology students how to use MATLAB for analyzing experimental data. Written in a conversational and non-intimidating style, the author walks students step-by-step through importing their data, working with their data, and plotting data for presentation-ready figures and graphs.

Highlights the key theories used to guide interpersonal communication research, featuring chapters written by leading scholars in the field. Both classic and cutting edge theories are explored, and applications of the theory in question are discussed in each chapter.

Using a tried-and-tested, five-step process, this book provides students with a reader-friendly introduction to the major types of structural equation models implemented in the Mplus framework.

Examines the role of public skills policy from a new perspective. This book extends a theoretical analysis to examine the implications for the sectoral approach to skills development as a more effective form of public skills policy.

A step-by-step guide to writing empirically focused research papers, this new introduction covers areas from formulating a hypothesis and doing pre-research, to managing both qualitative and quantitative data, through to preparing work for publication.

Offering a practical and evidence-based guide to all aspects of the therapeutic relationship in counselling and psychotherapy, this book helps trainee and practising therapists facilitate a strong working alliance with each of their clients.